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The police detective killed while interrogating a murder suspect at department headquarters in
Mississippi’s capital city was shot four times before the suspect shot himself in the head,
authorities said yesterday.

Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart said Jackson Police detective Eric Smith was shot
twice in the chest and twice in the arm with a9 mm pistol.

He had been seeking information on a stabbing death this week. Jeremy Powell, 23, wrested Smith’s
gun away while he was being questioned, shot the detective, then himself, Mississippi Bureau of
Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said yesterday.